The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-29
BILL NYE TO HIS SON.
He Relates His Experience in the Chicken
Industry.

mother has a good deal of pain in her side al
the while and am off my feed more or les
in the morning. Doc has fixed me UP som
condition powders that he says viii straightel
me out right away. Perhaps So Doc ha
Strengthened oat good many people in hi
time wish had as many dollars as he ha
Strengthened out people.
Most every spring Pve had to take a Ittl
dandelion root, imbered up with gin, bu
this year that didn't seem to get there, as tht
| bows saw / fixed up a dOSt of it and took i
day and night for week till wore that ole
dandelion root clear down to skin and bone
| but in ten days my appetite was worse thai
! ever and had head on me like a 2-year-OIC
| colt DandeliOn root never served me thai
| way before and your mother thinks that the
! goodness is all out of it, may be. It's the
same old dandeliOn root that I've been using
for twenty years, and believe when you've
tried a thing and proved it's good, you orient
to change off.
l tried to get your mother to take dose OF
it last week for the pain in her side. Fixed
up a two-quart jug of it for her, but she can't
bear the smell of gin, SO had to take it my.
self. Dandelion is a great purifier of the
blood Henry Some days after 1 have been
taking this dandelion root, for an hour or two
feel as if my blood vas pretty near pure
enough. feel like new man.
y,
that l was going to buy some new-fangled
hens in the spring and go into the egg bust
ness Well, l sent east in March for couple
of fowls, one of each sect. They came at 50
per pair over and above railroad charges,
which was some S4 35 more on top of that.
[ thought that as soon as the hen got here
and got her things off and got rested she
would proceed to lay some of these here high
priced eggs which we read of in The Poultry
Keepers Guide and American Eggist But
she seemed pensive, and when L tried to get
acquainted with her she would cluck i'll
crOupy tone of voice and go away.
The rooster was no doubt a fine-lOOking
brute when he was shipped, but when he got
here he strOlled around with preOccupied
air and seemed to feel above us. He was a
poker-dOt rooster, with gray name and tail,
and he was no doubt refined, but L did not
think he should feel above his business, for
are only plain people, who are accustomed
to the self-made American hen. He seemed
bored all the time, and | could see by the
way he acted that he pinned to be back in Ere
mont, o., having his picture taken for The
Poultry Keepers Guide and American Egg
ist. He still yearued for appreciation. lie
was used to being much made of, as your
mother says, and it CALLED him to enter into
our plain, humdrum home life.
never saw such naughty rooster in my
life. Actually, when | went out to feed him
in the morning he would give me cold ar
rogant look that hurt my feelings. know
I'm not what you would call an educated
man nor polished man, though 1 claim to
have n son that rs both of said things, but
hate to have a rooster crow over me because !
he has had better advantages and better
breeding than 1 have. So there was no love |
lost between us, as you can see.
Directly l noticed that the hen began to |
have spells of vertigo. She would be stand |
ing in a corner of the hen retreat, reverting |
to her joyous childhood at Fremont, o., when
all at once she would "fall senseless on the
earth and there lie prone upon the sward."
She would remain in this comytoes condition
for between five minutes, perhaps Then she
would rally a little. slowly pry open her large,
mournful eyes and seem to murmur, "Where
am I?n
l could see that she was evading the egg
issue in every way and ignoring the great OBJ
ject for which she was created. With the
ability to lay eggs worth from 81 to S5.75 per
dozen delivered on the cars, l could plainly
see that she proposed to roll up this great tai
INT in a napkin and play the invalid act. l
10 ut disguise the fact, Henry, that / was
mad / made large rectangular affidavit
IN the inner temple of the horse barn that
his pozer-dot hen should never live to say
hat l had sent her to the seashore for her
health when she was eminently fitted by ma
7uTe to please the public with her lay.
L therefore gave her two weeks to decide on
whether she would contribute a few of her
articles or insert herself into a
chicken pie.
She still continued naughty to the last
moment So did her pardner. We there
ore treated ourselves to a 50 dinner in April.
then got some expensive eggs from the
They were layed during a time of great de-
PRESTON, judge | do not say that the eggs
we're bad, but l say that their instincts and
heir inner life wasn't what they ought to !
ave been.
In early May bought one of those inlzy
aterS that does the work of ten setting hens
hoped to head off the hen SO far as possible
imply purchasing her literary efforts and
diting them to suit myself. l cannot endure
he society of a low-5red hen, and a refined
en seems to look down me, and so ]
lough if 1 could get one of these ottymatfc
lllybaters l could have the whole process
nder my own control, and if the blooded
ems wanted to go to the sanitarium and sit
round there withssth hands in their
ockets while the great hungry world of
'affic clamored for more spring chickens @
led in butter, they might do SO and be dog
Oned.
1hereupOn bought one OF the meOlun 7
re, two-story hatchers, and loaded it with
5gs. In my dreams l could see long pro- =
sSion of fuzzy little chickens marching out
my little inkybater, arm in arm, every day A
two. / was dreaming one of these dreams p
ght before last, at midnight's holy hour,
hen 1 was rudely awakened by gallon OF .
id water in one of my ears. arose In the
rkneSs and received a squirt of cold water
rough the window from ever watchful
ID courageous fire department l opened
9 easement for the purpose of thanking
EN- for this little demonstration, wholly I'M
Iicited on my part when discovered the r
nnery was in flames. l went down to assist 4
Q department. We saved the other build
rs, but the hatchery is a mass of smoldering
ms So am l. 1t seems that the kerosene
mp which 1 kept burning in the inkybater
the purpose of maintaining an even tenn
nature, and also for the purpose of showing
chickens the way to the elevator in case
ey should hatch out in the night, had
'ched up and ignited the hatchery, so to
ak.
see by my paper that we are importing
200, 900 of hens eggs from Europe every
ar. It'll be 800, o0O, 900 next year SO far as